WORLD FILM HISTORY 1945-PRESENT

WORLD FILM HISTORY 1945-PRESENT

Course Number
CIMS 102 601
Course Code
CIMS102601
Course Key
65373
Day(s)
Tuesday
Thursday
Time
4:30pm-6:00pm
4:30pm-6:00pm
Instructor
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector (All Classes)
Cross Cultural Analysis Course (for students admitted in Fall 2006 and later)
Course Description
Focusing on movies made after 1945, this course allows students to learn and to sharpen methods, terminologies, and tools needed for the critical analysis of film. Beginning with the cinematic revolution signaled by the Italian Neo-Realism (of Rossellini and De Sica), we will follow the evolution of postwar cinema through the French New Wave (of Godard, Resnais, and Varda), American movies of the 1950s and 1960s (including the New Hollywood cinema of Coppola and Scorsese), and the various other new wave movements of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (such as the New German Cinema). We will then selectively examine some of the most important films of the last three decades, including those of U.S. independent film movement and movies from Iran, China, and elsewhere in an expanding global cinema culture. There will be precise attention paid to formal and stylistic techniques in editing, mise-en-scene, and sound, as well as to the narrative, non-narrative, and generic organizations of film. At the same time, those formal features will be closely linked to historical and cultural distinctions and changes, ranging from the Paramount Decision of 1948 to the digital convergences that are defining screen culture today. There are no perquisites. Requirements will include readings in film history and film analysis, an analytical essay, a research paper, weekly Canvas postings, and active participation in class discussion.
Crosslistings
ARTH109601
COM124601
ENGL092601
Subject Area Vocab